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VÄXA Attend - The ADD and ADHD Natural Remedy
Attend is a safe, all-natural ADD and ADHD alternative treatment
that is a proven, scientifically advanced, neurological nutraceutical
natural remedy, specifically formulated to support the function
of the Central Nervous System (CNS) and address the specific
dietary and neurochemical deficiencies which are thought to
occur within the population of individuals with attention
deficit.
Taken regularly, this ADD and ADHD alternative treatment is
designed to:
- complement the body's natural calming
and balancing agents.
- focus attention and relieve over-and-under
activity.
- support the body's appropriate, sometimes
paradoxical, counterbalancing system of energy use.
- prioritize and order the appropriate
attenuation of specific stimulation.
What Is Attention Deficit?
There's often nothing more frustrating than seeing a child or
being an adolescent who experiences learning problems, or LD
(Learning Disorder) and ADD/ADHD (Attention Deficit Disorder
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). These individuals
may often be out of control, over-stimulated, under-stimulated,
or experience uncontrolled stimulation patterns throughout their
sensorium, exhibiting behavioral patterns which are difficult
to explain and which often disrupt an entire household. Attention
Deficit (and its many forms: ADD/ADHD/LD) is a dysfunction of
the Central Nervous System (CNS), most specifically the Reticular
Activating System, which results in difficulties of maintaining
attention and concentration, learning and memory, as well as
involving an inability to process and sort out incoming information
or stimulus from both an individual's inner (subjective) and
outer (objective) worlds. It may manifest itself in undue passivity
or inattentiveness, or unruly, uncontrollable, aggressive hyperactivity
in affected individuals. What
Are The Causes Of Attention Deficit? Attention Deficit
is a limiting metabolic dysfunction of the Reticular Activating
System, the center of consciousness that coordinates learning
and memory, and which normally supplies the appropriate neural
connections necessary for smooth information processing and
clear, non-stressful attention. When neural building materials
are lacking, demand for further connectivity cannot easily
be fulfilled, interfering with the efficient processing of
information, and frustrating the AD individual.
In other words, neural "hardware" remains in limited production
(there's not enough of it), and supply cannot keep up with
the demand (increasing stimulus or "traffic") for new neural
connections within the Central Nervous System (CNS). Demands
for new learning, memory, and the management of information
processing cannot be satisfied, and the insufficient "connections"
result in existing neural pathways being repeatedly overworked
and over stressed, often resulting in complete gridlock or
shutdown so that nothing gets processed thereafter. This,
most noticeably, generates frustration, bewilderment and behavioral
problems in the Attention Deficited individual.
The Reticular Activating System and its connections. At
the center of consciousness, attention and learning.
The Reticular Activating System appears to be intimately
involved in the neural mechanisms which produce consciousness
and focused attention, receiving impulses from the spinal
cord and relaying them to the Thalamus, and from there to
the Cortex, and back again in a feedback loop to the Hippocampus/Thalamus/
Hypothalamus and participating neural structures in order
for learning and memory to take place. Without continual excitation
of cortical neurons by reticular activation impulses, an individual
is unconscious and cannot be aroused. When stimulation is
enough for consciousness but not for attentiveness, ADD or
LD results. If too activated, an individual cannot relax or
concentrate (and is over-stimulated or hyperactive) often
resulting in ADHD.
ATTEND - The ADHD Alternative Treatment
How Does This Limitation Affect An Individual's
Perceptual Abilities?
Although Attention Deficit starts in the brain, it really
involves the entire sensorium (vision, smell, touch, hearing,
etc.) as well as the inner world of cognition and emotion.
When deprived of the required number of neural connections
needed to process the "traffic" smoothly, competition between
various stimuli results. Overly competitive stimulation from
multiple external and internal sources (too much visual stimulation,
too much sound stimulation, too many internal feelings and
emotions, etc.) can cause undue frustration, irritation, aggression
and anxiety. When the limited neural network is overly taxed
in this regard, it becomes unable to "tune in" or focus on
some stimulation, while "tuning out," or "turning down" (attenuating)
other stimulation.
This lack of ability to focus on some particular
stimulus while attenuating others, creates undue "noise" in
the perceptual systems within the brain. For the Attention
Deficited individual, this perceptual "neural-noise" is so
overly noxious and continuous that it appears to be competitively
assaultive, crippling any attempt to concentrate on one stimulus
while attenuating others. Feelings of helplessness and anxiety
are often overwhelming, forcing an Attention Deficited individual
to look for ways in which to survive the assaultive nature
of their world.
A number of strategies are possible, but
two are generally the most common and most easily documented.
The first is that of an ADHD individual. ADHDs are hypothesized
to have ample supplies of Acetylcholine and clear, lipofuscin-free,
unobstructed Cholinergic pathways, allowing them to actively
compete and overwhelm the intrusive messages. Thus, ADHD individuals
attempt to operate at a "noisier" level (becoming intensely
hyperactive), trying to "shout-down" the crowded array of
competing stimulation within their brain.
ADDs and LDs are hypothesized to have low
Acetylcholine levels and adverse lipofuscin populations within
the Cholinergic neural pathways, making a competitive response
more difficult and trying. For both an ADD and LD individual,
it becomes so "noisy" that it becomes necessary to shut down
all processing of the senses altogether, avoiding and deflecting
all stimulation. The incessant cacophony of "neural-noises"
produces a powerfully competitive "numbing," almost hypnotic
agent, and ADHD individuals simply "give up" to the competitively
powerful undifferentiated "white-neural-noise" being generated
by their sensorium because the neural-thresholds of the sensorium
have over-fired and can no longer be sustained. Thus, unlike
other children, the ADD and LD individual simply "shut-down"
and "tune-out," producing high Theta and/or Alpha brain waves
(see brain maps below).
Relative Power Z-Score
Maps from Quantitative Electroencephalography (QEEG)
Differences in activity in normal and ADD children
The brain maps on the left (1&2) are
of normal individuals: a 14 year old female and 9 year old
male. The ones on the right (3&4) are ADD individuals: a different
14 year old female and a different 9 year old male. Notice
how the two ADD individuals (3&4) demonstrate high (more red)
Theta and Alpha activity in their maps than do the normal
individuals, respectively. High Theta wave activity is generally
associated with drowsiness; High Alpha activity is generally
associated with idleness. The ADD results (3&4) are characteristic
of states of non-attentiveness, and too little stimulation
of the reticular activating system, and probable inadequate
number of connections. Thus the ADD/LD child can effectively
"tune-out" his/her environment. In contrast, the normal children's
results of low Alpha and Theta wave activity (1&2) are characteristic
of alertness and focused attentiveness, demonstrating adequate
stimulation of the reticular activating system, and thus,
an adequate number of neural connections.
What Can Be Done To Correct This
Dysfunction Of The Reticular Activating System?
Fortunately, when appropriate (1) neural building materials,
(2) precursors to neurotransmitters and (3) an appropriate
fund of neural buffers are supplied, neural networks may be
created and forged quickly in order to meet the increasing
demands of heavy neural traffic, especially in the prepubescent
individual. In fact, given the chance, individual neurons
can grow at the rate of 3-5mm per day! And, there are roughly
100 billion neurons in the brain to be developed, along with
a staggering 900 billion supporting glial ("helper") cells
-- a grand total of one trillion (1,000,000,000,000) cells
to be nurtured -- that's 10 times the number of stars estimated
to be in our galaxy!
Are These Neural Building Materials
Really All That Important?
Yes, they are! One half of the dry weight of the brain
(neurons, glial and brain cells) is made up of fatty acids
and lipids. The "hard neural connections," or synapses, between
all these essential areas of the brain where the coordination
of memory and learning take place is largely made possible
by the structures of Fatty Acids and Phospholipids alone.
And, the physical number of neural connections then potentiates
further production of neurotransmitters and neural buffers,
which in turn enhances memory processing and learning even
more. If these essential building blocks of the brain's "hardware"
and "software" are not adequately provided for, then many
"connections" will simply not be made or developed. The good
news is that VÄXA Attend supplies these important factors!
Composite Structure
of a typical Neuron
The basic "Hardware" of the Central Nervous
System must be in place in order for memory and learning to
proceed efficiently. The more neurons there are that can make
"connections" with other neurons, the more efficient and easy
learning and remembering may become. Without such "connectivity,"
learning is often frustrated and impaired as it is with Attention
Deficited individuals. (Above is a diagram of a Multipolar
neuron with multiple extensions from the cell body. Below
is an actual 
micrograph of a Bipolar neuron with 2 extensions from the
cell body.)
Actual Scanning Electron
Micrograph of a Neuron
What Is Attend?
VÄXA Attend is a safe, all natural ADD and ADHD alternative
treatment nutraceutical specifically engineered to help support
the function of the Central Nervous System of individuals
who are inclined to be inattentive, under and/or overactive
and perhaps learning impaired, enabling the body to balance
both neural growth and neurotransmitter production within
the Brain and Central Nervous System (CNS). Attend is a natural
remedy formulated to supply the essential building materials
for the entire neural network, helping to potentiate balanced
stimulation of the Reticular Activating System while aiding
the body in appropriate neural buffering within.
How Does Attend Work?
Quite uniquely! Attend is an ADHD natural remedy that is designed
to complement the body's natural calming and balancing agents
with specific micro-nutritionals (Lithium bromatum, carbonicum)
and neurotransmitters (i.e.GABA, DLPA and other neural buffers)
which help to target, direct and smoothly focus attention,
while naturally complementing the activity of the Reticular
Activating System. Attend also supplies the essential framework
of Lipids and Fatty Acids, natural hormones, as well as neural
growth and synchronization factors quintessential for neural
and glial cell generation so as to meet the demands of increased
neural "traffic" through the Reticular Activating System.
Additionally, Attend supplies the essential catecholamine
precursors (such as catechol, phospholipids and naturally
occurring trans- and cis-cloramide, a naturally conjugated
form of L-dopa) to dopamine, acetylcholine and norepinephrine,
the three most important neurotransmitters within the brain.
And, the natural hormone pregnenolone is included in Attend
to aid in memory retention, which also helps maintain the
specific "programming" brain cells need to store and retrieve
short term memory, essential in any learning paradigm. Pregnenolone
is directly related as well to neural genesis, growth and
reconfiguration, wherein gene activation is enabled, allowing
the multiplication, growth and "connectivity" of neural cells,
allowing learning to proceed with less frustration. Lastly,
Pycnogenol®, and other supporting flavanoids within Attend,
help feed and strengthen the small capillaries within new
neural growth sites, helping to prevent free radical cascade
damage to the expanding neural network, protecting neural
patterns.
Are There Any Side-Effects With Attend?
No, Attend is an ADHD alternative treatment that is completely
safe and non-toxic. Unlike other medications, Attend is a
100% natural remedy that works without the harmful side effects
that may stunt the growth of developing children or irritate
adults. Indeed, Attend works to stimulate neural growth patterning
and regenerative activity so as to forge more "connections"
within the neural network. Interestingly, other ADD-specific
pharmaceuticals have been suspected of retarding growth of
ADD individuals, which ironically, is the last thing you would
want to do with individuals who have been neurally limited!
Furthermore, Attend works without diminishing overall processing,
cognitive and learning activities, as does methylphenidate
and other drugs, including amphetamines, antidepressants or
anticonvulsants normally prescribed for ADD, and all of which
have been shown to detrimentally diminish cognitive activity.
Attend will likely enhance the positive effectiveness of other
pharmaceuticals, and can be used conjointly without difficulty
while in transition from less preferred drugs.
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